title: Early neurophysiological evolution of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy in a patient with Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
abstract: A patient with a known history of hypothyroidism due to Hashimoto's thyroiditis presented with a subacute, progressive sensorimotor deficit that affected the upper limbs predominantly. The electrophysiological findings progressively evolved from multifocal motor conduction block to multifocal demyelinating sensory and motor nerve involvement with conduction block, and finally to findings fulfilling the diagnostic criteria of chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP). The patient did not respond adequately to intravenous immunoglobulin, whereas oral prednisone led to fast and complete recovery. This report discusses the evolution of early findings of CIDP, as well as its coexistence with Hashimoto's thyroiditis.
authors.affiliation: Neurology Department, 401 Army General Hospital of Athens, Mesogeion and Kanellopoulou 1, Athens 11525, Greece.
authors.forename: Chrisostomos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Bairactaris
authors.affiliation: Neurology Department, 401 Army General Hospital of Athens, Mesogeion and Kanellopoulou 1, Athens 11525, Greece.
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Stouraitis
authors.affiliation: Neurology Department, 401 Army General Hospital of Athens, Mesogeion and Kanellopoulou 1, Athens 11525, Greece.
authors.forename: Elias
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Papalias
authors.affiliation: Neurology Department, 401 Army General Hospital of Athens, Mesogeion and Kanellopoulou 1, Athens 11525, Greece.
authors.forename: Nikolaos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Fakas
authors.affiliation: Clinical Research Unit, 401 Army General Hospital of Athens, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Georgios
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Papatheodorou
authors.affiliation: Neurology Department, 401 Army General Hospital of Athens, Mesogeion and Kanellopoulou 1, Athens 11525, Greece.|Neuroscience Department, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA.
authors.forename: Pavlos
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gourtzelidis
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D018450:Disease Progression; D050031:Hashimoto Disease / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009431:Neural Conduction / Q000502:physiology; D020277:Polyradiculoneuropathy, Chronic Inflammatory Demyelinating / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology*